Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. After a tense week when nobody knew what was going to happen on the ...

Since January, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” has garnered accolades left and right. It currently owns the pole position on the Billboard Hot 100 for a twelfth consecutive week and recently ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrea Bossi is a New York-based contributing reporter covering music. This article is more than 4 years old. Luis Fonsi and Daddy ...

"Despacito" is a lot of things: it's the song you can't get stuck out of your head, the one playing from every car or set of headphones, and thanks to it's new global streaming record of 4.6 billion ...

"Despacito," the Spanish-language summer smash by Puerto Rican stars Luis Fonsi and "king of reggaetón" Daddy Yankee, is now the most-streamed song in history. On Wednesday, Universal Music, which ...

Something is happening. In the interest of full disclosure: I will freely admit that I’m not sure what is happening, but it’s something. Like monkeys at typewriters eventually banging out the complete ...